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Dictatorship: It's Easier Than You Think! by Sarah Kendzior
RRP: £24.99£15.87Do you crave the power to shape the world in your image? Can you tell lies without blinking an eye? Do you see enemies all around you? If you answered yes to all of the above, then this is the job for you! And if becoming a dictator sounds... -
The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain? by Polly Toynbee 9781847082503
RRP: £9.99£6.70Did the Labour government improve people's lives? Are we healthier, wealthier or wiser; happier or safer than in 1997, when Labour came to power? If we are, how much do we have to thank Blair and Brown and their cabinets for? In The Verdict, Polly... -
Conversations With Myself by Nelson Mandela
RRP: £16.99£13.28Conversations With Myself is a moving collection of letters, diary entries and other writing that provides a rare chance to see the other side of Nelson Mandela's life, in his own voice: direct, clear, private. An international bestseller, Conversations... -
The Number Bias: How Numbers Lead and Mislead Us by Sanne Blauw 9781529342734
RRP: £16.99£11.54'The Number Bias combines vivid storytelling with authoritative analysis to deliver a warning about the way numbers can lead us astray - if we let them.' TIM HARFORDEven if you don't consider yourself a numbers person, you are a numbers person. The time... -
Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World by Lila Rose
RRP: £13.99£9.70What makes your heart break for our broken world? You want to make a difference in the world. You're concerned about all the problems you see, the injustices and the suffering. But you don't know where to begin. Designed for the aspiring activist or... -
American Political History: A Very Short Introduction by Donald Critchlow
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those... -
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein 9780743243032
£18.72Heralded by stunning reviews, Perlstein's best-selling NIXONLAND begins in the blood and fire of the Watts riots - one week after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, and nine months after his historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater... -
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by Tim Alberta
RRP: £14.99£10.95New York Times Bestseller"Not a conventional Trump-era book. It is less about the daily mayhem in the White House than about the unprecedented capitulation of a political party. This book will endure for helping us understand not what is happening but... -
Targeting Israeli Apartheid: A Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Handbook by Tom Anderson 9781907738043
RRP: £10.00£9.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907738043Author Tom AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Corporate WatchPublisher Corporate WatchDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 22mm -
Margaret Thatcher's Last Election by David Young 9781785906831
RRP: £20.00£14.29The year is 1987. Having made history by becoming the UK's first female Prime Minister and then driving out the most left-wing manifesto the country has ever seen, Margaret Thatcher faces a climactic third election campaign. Her eight years in power... -
Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work by George Tsebelis
RRP: £35.00£27.21Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a... -
Heroes or Villains?: The Blair Government Reconsidered by Jon Davis
RRP: £30.00£21.89Tony Blair was the political colossus in Britain for thirteen years, winning three elections in a row for New Labour, two of them by huge majorities. However, since leaving office he has been disowned by many in his own party, with the term 'Blairite'... -
Fixing American Politics: Solutions for the Media Age by Roderick P. Hart
RRP: £36.99£32.53Fixing American Politics: Solutions for the Media Age brings together original chapters from 34 noted scholars from two disciplines - political science and communication - asked to identify the most pressing problems facing the American people and how... -
Generals: Ten British Commanders who Shaped the World by Mark Urban
RRP: £12.99£8.56Mark Urban tells the story of ten exceptional generals who left their mark on Britain, the British Empire, and the world. Some - including the Duke of Wellington, Lord Kitchener and Bernard Montgomery - are names etched in the national mythology. Others... -
Monica and Other Stories [Working Title] by Gerry Adams
RRP: £11.99£9.00In this collection, one of Ireland's best-known political figures brings us new and selected stories of politics, of family, of love and of friendship. These are portraits of Ireland, and especially Belfast, old and new, in times of struggle and in times... -
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
RRP: £17.99£12.14In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an... -
Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya by Annick Cojean
RRP: £12.99£8.56Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, "the Guide," on a visit he was making the following week. This one meeting - a presentation of flowers, a pat on... -
Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide by Vincent Liegey
RRP: £18.99£12.75A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we... -
Theories Of The Policy Process by Christopher M. Weible 9781032311241
£44.39Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in policy process research to present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, latest updates, and the promising future research opportunities of each policy process theory.In this... -
Labour's Civil War: How infighting has kept the left from power (and what can be done about it) by Patrick Diamond 9781913368593
RRP: £16.99£11.83The biblical adage that 'if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand' remains sound theological advice. It also essential counsel for any political party that aspires to win elections. Though both major parties have been subject to... -
Democracy Defined: The Manifesto by Kenn d'Oudney
£22.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902848280Author Kenn d'OudneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Scorpio Recording Company (Publishing) LtdPublisher Scorpio Recording Company... -
Democracy Hacked: How Technology is Destabilising Global Politics by Martin Moore
RRP: £9.99£7.11Technology has fractured democracy, and now there's no going back. All around the world, the fringes have stormed the palace of the elites and unleashed data miners, dark ads and bots on an unwitting public. After years of soundbites about connecting... -
First Lady: An unputdownable thriller of politics and power by Michael Dobbs
RRP: £9.99£6.80Michael Dobbs, author of the No. 1 bestseller that inspired the hit Netflix series House of Cards, returns to the subject that made him a household name - the human drama and scandal in Westminster. First Lady is a compelling and witty novel of power,... -
Wild Grass: China's Revolution from Below by Ian Johnson
RRP: £10.99£7.12'Illuminating ... Johnson has not only lifted a corner of the curtain which covers China's reality beyond its glittering eastern cities; he has drawn the whole curtain' The Times Literary SupplementIn Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson... -
Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Mark White
£31.70During his lifetime, John F. Kennedy created a dazzling image that has been sustained since his assassination in 1963. This book examines how Kennedy succeeded in using his military service in World War II, his literary efforts, his sex appeal, his... -
'kill All The Gentlemen': Class struggle and change in the English countryside by Martin Empson 9781910885697
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910885697Author Martin EmpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications -
Grant by Ron Chernow
RRP: £24.00£19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110637Author Ron ChernowFormat PaperbackPage Count 1104Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1196gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 154mm... -
The Dictatorship Syndrome by Alaa Al Aswany 9781912208593
RRP: £12.99£9.09The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them, their freedoms violated and their rights abused. They are... -
Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives by Philip N. Howard
RRP: £22.50£18.95Technology is breaking politics-what can be done about it? Artificially intelligent "bot" accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their outlandish beliefs. Campaigners... -
A History of Iraq by Charles Tripp
RRP: £26.99£22.23To understand Iraq, Charles Tripp's history is the book to read. Since its first appearance in 2000, it has become a classic in the field of Middle East studies, read and admired by students, soldiers, policymakers and journalists. The book is now... -
A Difference of Opinion: The Autobiography of Jim Sillars by Jim Sillars
£15.01Jim Sillars, among the last of his generation's working-class politicians, has had a prominent role in Scottish public life for more than six decades, during which he moved from being a Unionist Labour MP to becoming deputy leader of the SNP and now a... -
Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet 9781590170281
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170281Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm)... -
Roads, Runways and Resistance: From the Newbury Bypass to Extinction Rebellion by Steve Melia
RRP: £18.99£12.75'As a movement for social change it is important that we understand our own history. This is a compelling read.' From the anti-roads protests of the 1990s to HS2 and Extinction Rebellion, conflict and protest have shaped the politics of transport. In... -
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography by Webster Griffin Tarpley
RRP: £14.99£9.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930852924Author Webster G TarpleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 659Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 792g -
Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America by Jeffrey Stout
RRP: £22.00£16.99In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? Many Americans are doubtful, and have withdrawn into apathy and cynicism. But thousands of... -
The Art of Leading Collectively: How We Can Co-Create a Better Future : A Guide to Collaborative Impact for Sustainability Change Agents from Companies, the Public Sector, and Civil Society by Petra Kuenkel 9781603586269
RRP: £25.00£16.78A guide to collaborative impact for leaders in industry, government, and social change networks Our world is facing unsustainable global trends-from climate change and water scarcity to energy insecurity, unfair labor practices, and growing inequality... -
Forbes Burnham: The Life and Times of the Comrade Leader by Linden F. Lewis 9781978837515
RRP: £43.00£36.81It is virtually impossible to understand the history of modern Guyana without understanding the role played by Forbes Burnham. As premier of British Guiana, he led the country to independence in 1966 and spent two decades as its head of state until his... -
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign by Jonathan Allen
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553447118Author Jonathan AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics by Benjamin Abrams
RRP: £24.00£23.03An insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests. Between 15 and 26 million Americans participated in protests surrounding the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna... -
The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible by Stephen Duncombe
RRP: £17.99£15.27The Art of Activism is an all-purpose guide to artistic activism, combining the creative power of the arts to move us emotionally with the strategic planning of activism necessary to bring about social change. With contemporary case studies and...